From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian. Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:32:20 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znour3tn.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87lm0ijabw.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87znoxi93a.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87ptpqhqjp.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <874r7238p9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045517491 15268 80.91.224.249 (17 Feb 2003 21:31:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ksrH-0003xn-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:31:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18kt5r-0005rM-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:46:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kst8-00078M-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:33:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kssg-0006wW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:32:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kssd-0006uu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kssB-0006gR-00; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:32:23 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E3F61C; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:32:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4DA66C45F6; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:32:20 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Florian Weimer In-Reply-To: <874r7238p9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:20:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Original-cc: rms@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11721 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11721 Florian Weimer writes: > Maybe Emacs can offer access to the relevant system calls, so movemail > can be implemented in Lisp? It can't be *that* hard... Sure. I actually mentioned that later down, but with that approach, there's a concern that you might upset any constituencies that really want/need a standalone script. I don't really have any measure of how important a concern that is, but I have heard off and on of various uses of movemail outside emacs. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4